Quotes
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"The Earth isn't my home, Sarah. I'm a Time Lord. You don't understand the implications. I'm not a human being. I walk in eternity." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"Something's going on contrary to the laws of the universe. I must find out what." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"That isn't all must, Sarah. Some of it's mummy." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"French picklock. Never fails. Belonged to Marie Antoinette. Charming lady. Lost her head, poor thing." ~ The Fourth Doctor
Sarah: Doctor, listen. I saw a mummy. A walking mummy!
The 4th Doctor: Mummies are embalmed, eviscerated corpses. They don't walk.
Sarah: But this one did.
"Yes. Why do you think I'm here? Something's interfering with time, Mister Scarman, time is my business." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"The forces that are being summoned into corporeal existence in that house are more powerful and more dangerous than anything even I have ever encountered. Stay here." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"Sutekh is breaking free from his ancient bonds. If he succeeds, he'll destroy the whole world. He destroyed his own planet, Phaester Osiris, and left a trail of havoc across half the galaxy. Horus and the rest of the Osirans must have finally cornered him on Earth. The wars of the gods entered into mythology. The whole of Egyptian culture is founded upon the Osiran pattern." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"Laurence went up to the house. That Egyptian servant of yours took a potshot at me! Laurence and the Doctor and some very plucky young girl went off to deal with the brute. They've been gone a devil of a time, mind you. I hope nothing's amiss." ~ Dr. Warlock
"Egyptian mummies building rockets? That's crazy." ~ Sarah Jane Smith
Laurence: Great heavens! This is unbelievable. Totally unbelievable!
The 4th Doctor: You're going to say it transcends all the normal laws of physics.
Laurence: I am, yes. I mean, it does. It's preposterous!
The 4th Doctor: Isn't it. I often think dimensional transcendentalism is preposterous, but it works. Would you like to look around?
"I say, this is like something by that novelist chap, Mister Wells." ~ Laurence
Sarah: If Sutekh is so totally evil, why didn't Horus and the other Osirans destroy him?
The 4th Doctor: It's against their code. To have killed him would have meant that they were no better than he, so they simply imprisoned him.
"Deactivating a generator loop without the correct key is like repairing a watch with a hammer and chisel. One false move and you'll never know the time again.". ~ The Fourth Doctor
The 4th Doctor: Sutekh was only defeated in the end by the combined might of seven hundred and forty of his fellow Osirans led by Horus.
Sarah: The seven hundred and forty gods whose names were recorded in the tomb of Tutmoses the Third.
Sarah: Oh! Sometimes you don't seem
The 4th Doctor: Human?
"Don't provoke me." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"I renounced the society of the Time Lords. Now I'm simply a traveller." ~ The Fourth Doctor
The 4th Doctor: The controls of the Tardis are isomorphic.
Sutekh: One to one. They answer to you alone.
The 4th Doctor: Yes.
The 4th Doctor: Yes. Perhaps it is time we were leaving. We don't want to be blamed for starting a fire, do we?
Sarah: No.
The 4th Doctor: I had enough of that in 1666.
Sarah: What?
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Trivia
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The story was originally written by Lewis Greifer, but was considered unworkable. As Greifer was unavailable to do rewrites, the scripts were completely rewritten by Robert Holmes. The pseudonym used on transmission was Stephen Harris.
The new TARDIS console which debuted in the preceding story Planet of Evil does not appear again until The Invisible Enemy. Due to the cost of setting up the TARDIS console room for the filming of only a handful of scenes, a new and far less expensive set and console were designed for the following season.
All the stories from this season were tributes to classic horror and science fiction films. This one was an obvious tribute to, and influenced by the original "Mummy" films produced by Universal Studios during the 1930s and 40s, which in turn were partly inspired by the legends about the supposed "King Tut's Curse."
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Links (Watch on DailyMotion.com)
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Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
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